It took all of five minutes for the Newton Falls school board to bring back a school resource officer Friday. The SRO will be in school buildings through the end of the school year on May 27.

"We appreciate very much the Trumbull County Sheriff's Office being able to provide us a school resource officer on short notice," said superintendent Justin Christopher.

The district had been without an SRO since March 16.
Mayor Ken Kline shared an email with 21 News that he says lines up with a phone call he got that city manager Pam Priddy had removed the officer.

"I would've never done that," said Kline. "I said 'I would've kept him in there and you and Mr. Christopher could talk, do whatever you want to do, but I'd have never done that'."

"It is frustrating," added Christopher. "I think at the end of the day it was a miscommunication. We felt like we weren't given the proper time to be able to come to a solution and so when that happened, obviously we had to scramble."

But while the SRO issue has been resolved, the controversy surrounding it has not. Mayor Kline is still calling on Priddy to resign.

"She comes to the (city council) meeting the other night and has these texts between myself and her, but somehow miraculously part of the texts were removed," said Kline. "The document was altered and then it was passed onto our community here."

For now though, both district officials and parents are grateful for a crisis averted.

"It is a giant relief knowing that our students and staff are going to be safe," Christopher said.

Priddy said in a release that she was "blindsided" by Kline's accusations, and said she won't be commenting further on the advice of her attorney.